Pottage vs Broth - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between pottage and broth

is that pottage is a thick soup or stew while broth is (uncountable) water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled.

(en noun)

A thick soup or stew.

* 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 328:

He is a portly man, though he lives on pottage and mashes.

(uncountable) Water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled.

(countable) A soup made from broth and other ingredients such as vegetables, herbs or diced meat.

* (Liquid in which food has been boiled) bouillon, stock, liquor, pot liquor

* Scotch broth * too many cooks spoil the broth